| 词组 | belly |
| 释义 | belly The committee for the defense of belly as applied to people seems to have been formed by Fowler 1926, and Copperud 1970, 1980 lists nearly every commentator he checked as a member of it. We can add Partridge 1942 and Bremner 1980 to the list. Although none of our 19th-century sources mention the word, there seems to have been a notion around that it was not polite. Krapp 1927 notes that belly was not then used in polite conversation or writing with reference to human beings. This newspaper article refers to the question: • ... a good time to scrap the Victorian version of belly and explain that since the gay nineties it has not been necessary to confuse belly with stomach or abdomen in order to show your good breeding — Bronx (N.Y.) Home News, 12 May 1937 It hardly seems necessary to prove by illustration that such a staunchly defended fine old English word is in current use. There is a fairly long discussion of belly and some of the terms substituted for it in Evans 1957. |
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